Richard Nixon Essay

It was only several years into President Richard Nixon’s presidency when things began to decline. January 20, 1969, was a special day for the United States of America, a newly elected president would take office in the White House located in Washington D.C. President Richard Nixon had high ambitions going into his presidency and pledged to have this country reunited by the end of his term. Richard Nixon’s childhood, personality, and character impacted him as the president and ultimately led to his resignation. It is also those traits that led Nixon to learn very few lessons after Watergate and resigning as the president of the United States. Nixon’s turbulent childhood led to a hard life as he grew older. At the age of 35, Francis Nixon

Richard Milhous Nixon was born in Yorba Linda, California on January 9, 1913. He was born into a family of Quakers with not very much money. Nixon was the second born in the family out of five children, all of which were boys. Nixon was never treated well by his father Frank Nixon during his childhood. Frank was a dropout in grade school and was a cranky blowhard according to Nixon. Nixon never wanted to be like his dad when he grew older, so he adapted to his mother’s way of life as he grew older. As for Nixon’s mother, Hannah, she was ambitious, but she was distant during Nixon’s childhood. Nixon noted that his father was “not controlled and he was explosive and dynamic,” as for his mother she was “extremely controlled,” and that was what Nixon inherited. He learned from his mother that he must be hardworking and ambitious in life to succeed. As a child, he worked continuously to achieve his goals, particularly in politics. In the early stages of Nixon’s childhood, he suffered from measles and cholera, and later in his childhood, he developed a severe case of pneumonia. Although Nixon “never wanted to be like his father” his temper was extremely short, and he got angered by situations quickly. His

Nixon was a very complicated and complex man, who had a different personality depending on the environment present. The year 1968 was the year Richard Nixon would take his place in the White House for the next four years, and in his mind, hopefully years following. Although Nixon had a rough childhood at times, he was making himself known in the US. As the president of the United States of America, you pledge to do what is best for the country, but Nixon could not achieve this. Richard Nixon was an introverted man, one who was awkward in any social setting. Within the White House, some saw the depressed boy inside the lonely man looking for someone to help him. Other times Nixon raged, “Nixon was raging hanging up on aides, and increasingly huddling in his hideaway office in the Executive Office Building, ‘reflecting, resenting, collecting his thoughts and his anger.”’ Nixon’s personality was not what the public would expect the president of the United States to carry. Nixon got frustrated with people and the law immensely fast. Nixon once noted in his diary, “and that all I wanted was a life in which I had just one more victory than defeat.” Nixon was satisfied with tampering with the election, so he could live knowing he had one more success in his political career. Nixon did not care about others and the lasting impression he left on them. Whether that was doing dirty